Retopo for film? How'd you go about prepping this model to be UV'd + Textured for Film

YianniP

Hey everyone!
Been pretty stuck on how to solve this problem. Want to try make a character that could be used in film. Every tutorial I look at for film uses models that are SubD models and they create displacement maps in ZBrush. These aren't SubD models 🤔 They're kind of models with gross topo. The only way I can think of is doing the game model workflow. Retopo + bake normals. Is that crazy for film? I feel it'd just rig a lot better than if it I were to UV it as it is now.

sprunghunt

you can UV hipoly models like this - since it's for film you don't need to be so picky about making neat UV islands - often you can just auto-unwrap the model. 

For a film you wouldn't necessarily paint the whole mesh - for the armband you could use tiling textures combined with edge based shader masks to add wear and tear. You'd probably paint the skin texture using something like Mari. 

oglu

For film i would model all. Sculpting only for surface details. If its a hero asset you need clean uvs.